Primates (with a few notable exceptions) are group animals and enjoy a rich political and social life and all that that implies. Individuals co-operate as well as compete and the slow and the weak are helped and assisted. If you made mistakes dumb enough to kill you , you might indeed have someone on hand to pull you out. Survival of the fittest just doesn't cover it. Political correctness is neither here nor there.
Evolution doesn't necessarily select for intelligence or against stupidity. Even very highly intelligent people can make stupid mistakes and under some conditions stupidity is an evolutionary advantage.
I know it's poor work to reply to your own post but modding my post Flamebait? What? It's supposed to be a Futurama reference and I was aiming for +1 funny. I wouldn't mind a -1 unfunny or -1 offtopic but.....
Glace is an absolute beauty of a game. It's a simple side scroller using three cursor keys and the space bar.
It's gentle, works with all ages and it's got game play without loud high energy music or flashing lights. I'll happily play it with my two and a half year old and have introduced it at work,
Here's a verbatim quote (or as close to) from a client yesterday:
I used to be scared to use computers because I didn't understand how they worked until a friend pointed out that I didn't know how the TV worked either but had no problem with that. Since then I have no problems, it's just pushing buttons.
No I think Satanicpuppy has the measure of this.
Of course free will is determined by the physical universe, it exists within it and so must play by it's rules, you don't need to posit the supernatural.
Cognition, the act of thinking, feeling, willing, what have you, is mediated by biological structures and hence governed by biology, chemistry, physics, yadda, yadda. You don't get conciousness without a nervous system. You don't get free will without a deterministic universe. The free will/determinism polarization is just a way of thinking or talking about the subject; it's a false dichotomy and you can't actually seperate the two except as a mind game. It's like the question; Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Stupid question, there is no real answer contained within the universe that that question frames; you have to go outside the question to gain any useful insights into eggs and chickens.
I'm surprised it took so long to take them down then. Heck! I'm surprised they didn't crash on takeoff or suffer a BS(paceship)OD some where out near Omicron Persei Five.
It's a good job they didn't have AOL pre-installed, then they would have been really angry. On the other hand, their cultural, social and technological development would have been so impeded by that that we'd have been safe for several more decades.
Next time we get invaded, don't fight back, just offer them free Bonzi Buddies for their desktops. Oh! And Viagra too!
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If flickr doesn't stay logged in for me like it did, I'll think twice.
This is all a bit of a relief to me. Ever since the SCO stories stopped coming two or three times a day I've had the shakes.
Primates (with a few notable exceptions) are group animals and enjoy a rich political and social life and all that that implies. Individuals co-operate as well as compete and the slow and the weak are helped and assisted. If you made mistakes dumb enough to kill you , you might indeed have someone on hand to pull you out. Survival of the fittest just doesn't cover it. Political correctness is neither here nor there.
Evolution doesn't necessarily select for intelligence or against stupidity. Even very highly intelligent people can make stupid mistakes and under some conditions stupidity is an evolutionary advantage.
Doesn't he make some kind of operating system?
You mean like my music collection?
Oh that's not so good. God doesn't approve of sex but practacally encourages war and death.
Disagreeing with Slashdot Dogma:
pro-DRM (-1)
pro-IP (-1)
pro-US (-1)
pro-mainstream platform (-1)
anti- "consumer"" (-1)
Not bad but you missed:
rational(-1)
intelligent (-1)
I say you leave your slashdot account by the door and leave quietly now.
Er...You must be new...erm.
I'll get my coat.
I know it's poor work to reply to your own post but modding my post Flamebait? What? It's supposed to be a Futurama reference and I was aiming for +1 funny. I wouldn't mind a -1 unfunny or -1 offtopic but.....
Sigh!
Death by Sununu.
Sorry.
That is so close to "only the Laywers win" that I've forgotten the headline for this thread.
"Glace is available free of charge from the download section (no spyware or adware either)" http://www.tommyvisic.com/Glace/Information.htm
Glace is an absolute beauty of a game. It's a simple side scroller using three cursor keys and the space bar.
It's gentle, works with all ages and it's got game play without loud high energy music or flashing lights. I'll happily play it with my two and a half year old and have introduced it at work,
You must be....no...I can't, it's christmas.
I used to be scared to use computers because I didn't understand how they worked until a friend pointed out that I didn't know how the TV worked either but had no problem with that. Since then I have no problems, it's just pushing buttons.
No I think Satanicpuppy has the measure of this.
Of course free will is determined by the physical universe, it exists within it and so must play by it's rules, you don't need to posit the supernatural.
Cognition, the act of thinking, feeling, willing, what have you, is mediated by biological structures and hence governed by biology, chemistry, physics, yadda, yadda. You don't get conciousness without a nervous system. You don't get free will without a deterministic universe. The free will/determinism polarization is just a way of thinking or talking about the subject; it's a false dichotomy and you can't actually seperate the two except as a mind game. It's like the question; Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Stupid question, there is no real answer contained within the universe that that question frames; you have to go outside the question to gain any useful insights into eggs and chickens.
Oh no it doesn't!
I'm not!
And yet here you are posting to slashdot.
Heck! I'm surprised they didn't crash on takeoff or suffer a BS(paceship)OD some where out near Omicron Persei Five.
It's a good job they didn't have AOL pre-installed, then they would have been really angry. On the other hand, their cultural, social and technological development would have been so impeded by that that we'd have been safe for several more decades.
Next time we get invaded, don't fight back, just offer them free Bonzi Buddies for their desktops. Oh! And Viagra too!
Now if we can only get more breasts into the stories we can take over from Fark. http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/8932/satrapvr2. jpg
(All that work just for a lame last-thing-friday gag. Sheesh!)
No wait...wrong meme pool, damnit!
Dude! Posting pictures of your wife on slashdot is...is...
Oooooo I've come over all hot and sweaty.
It's worse than that. All divorce is caused by marriage.